Ed Levine’s New Year’s Dieting Rules

I like what Serious Eats‘ Ed Levine has to say about losing weight this year. Rigorous, boring systems never work; changing the way you appreciate food certainly does. Most of what he outlines are the very same things that helped me lose and keep off 45 pounds last year. (And will hopefully help me shed this last 20.)

I’m going to taste, not devour.
I’m going to eat half of everything I order.
I’m going to exercise four or five times a week instead of twice.
I’m going to eat more fruits and vegetables and less pork fat.
I’m going to try and eat more slowly.
It is winter, the season of wonderful citrus fruit. I’m going to eat grapefruit, oranges, and tangerines at least three times a day.
I’m going to try and not eat after 9 p.m.

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